30.2450, Jobs: Language Acquisition: Post Doc, University of Leeds

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Subject: 30.2450, Jobs: Language Acquisition: Post Doc, University of Leeds

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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:43:27
From: Cecile De Cat [c.decat at leeds.ac.uk]
Subject: Language Acquisition: Post Doc, University of Leeds, UK

 
University or Organization: University of Leeds 
Department: Linguistics & Phonetics
Job Location: Leeds, United Kingdom 
Web Address: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/linguistics-phonetics-pg
Job Title: Post Doctoral Research Assistant
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition; Bilingualism


Description:

Salary: Grade 7 (£33,199 - £39,609 p.a) 
Fixed-term for 3 Years – 1 October 2019 to 30 September 2022

Project: Quantifying Bilingual Experience – optimising tools for educators,
clinicians and researchers
(see description below)

As a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant you will have:
- A PhD in Bilingual Language Acquisition (or near to completion meaning the
initial version of the thesis has been submitted) or another discipline
relevant to the project;
- Advanced quantitative analysis skills and a desire to learn more;
- Excellent qualitative analysis skills;
- Experience of testing children;
- Demonstrated experience of conducting quantitative and qualitative research;
- Proven ability to write to the standard required for research reports and
international publications;
- Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to
meet tight deadlines and work effectively under pressure;
- Excellent inter-personal skills;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including presentation
skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of
stakeholders;
- A proven ability to work well both individually and in a team, with an open
mind-set.

You may also have:
- Very good command of R;
- Experience in carrying out surveys;
- Familiarity with GitHub.

Our project aims to bring a step-change in the measurement of bilingual
language experience. It will seek to establish an optimal metric informed by
an in-depth review of existing tools and a consensus among researchers, speech
& language therapists and educators on what aspects of language experience to
index.

We aim to deliver user-friendly, online questionnaires (and their associated
back-end calculators) to return measures of current and cumulative language
experience in real time. The questionnaires will be available in 13 languages,
and vary in length and level of detail: the shortest version will be useful
when parental consultation is challenging; the longest version will yield more
fine-grained measures to enable in-depth enquiries.

Reliability and cross-language validity of the tools we develop will be
assessed using new data from 300 children in 3 different countries, in
collaboration with an international team of experts. Based on this assessment,
we will provide evidence-based guidance to inform users' choice on the level
of questionnaire detail most appropriate to their needs.

Exploiting cutting-edge statistical techniques, we will also develop an
objective method to identify early those bilingual children in need of support
with their school language, helping practitioners estimate when a child with
English as an Additional Language can be expected to have “caught up” with
their monolingual peers.

To apply, please see the application link provided below.



Application Deadline: 12-Jul-2019 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=AHCLC1087 
Contact Information:
	Prof. Cecile De Cat 
	Email: c.decat at leeds.ac.uk 


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